Raven was walking down the occupied rows of tables while eating a piece of jerky when he heard Nora exclaim, "We'll break his legs!"
He looked ahead and saw teams RWBY, JNPR and EMNT sitting together and looking angrily a few tables down. He followed their gaze to Cardin Winchester: the bully of their class currently pulling on the ears of a rabbit faunus while his friends laughed. "Ow! That hurts!" she cried.
Oh hell no, he thought as he stormed over to them. "Don't." Raven threatened coldly as he grabbed the bully's wrist and began to slowly crush it with his robotic arm. He let go of the girl's ear and stood up in front of Raven.
"Or what?" he demanded as he looked down at Raven.
"Go." he said to the girl as he removed his hand from the guy's, now slightly dented, vambrace. She nodded and quickly started to leave the hall, covering her face in embarrassment as she did. "Or I kick your ass in front of your little boyband, Winchester." he answered without once removing his glare. The rest of Cardin's team jumped to their feet and he crossed his arms.
"You just messed with the wrong guy, freak."
Raven, still glaring, mockingly said, "How cute. Now tell me, do you four wear armour to compensate for anything?" Cardin attacked him with a heavy overhand punch that Raven easily caught and used to throw the big lug over his shoulder and through the table with a woody crunch. "I'll take that as a yes." Raven said as the other three proceeded to jump him. He grabbed one of their arms and pulled him in front of him to block a couple of strikes before picking him up and dropping him on Cardin, turning it into a 2-on-1 fight.
He would have happily continued, but Glynda Goodwitch walked into the hall and ordered, "Enough!"
Raven looked over to her and saw the girl he had 'saved' standing behind her. Would you look at that, I've made a friend, he mused.
"You five, come with me!" Glynda ordered with a crack of her riding crop. He shrugged and took a piece of jerky out of his pocket before leaving his opponents to get their leader back to his feet. He tore a chunk off his jerky with his teeth and saw that everyone in the hall was looking at them, most with approving looks but some who obviously shared a prejudice against faunus. I've made many friends, I guess, he thought, pleasantly surprised. He gave a sly wink to Yang as he walked past where she was sitting.
"What's all this about?" she demanded when he got to her, her arms crossed.
"Merely a disagreement about how one should treat a fellow student, nothing you should be concerned about." he answered civilly.
"And what happened to the table?" she inquired.
"I'm afraid Cardin was thrown off balance by his armour, a terrible shame, but what can you do?" he said as team CRDL approached them.
"I see." she said in response, "You four will come with me, but you," she pointed at Raven, "will go to the headmaster immediately. Miss Scarlatina here will make sure you get there."
Raven and Velvet walked up to the elevator in the base of Beacon Tower and called down the main elevator. "Thanks for helping me earlier." she said while they waited.
Before he could utter a response the rest of her team showed up in front of them: Coco Adel, the stylish leader of team CFVY, Fox Alistair, a white eyed dark-skinned muay thai fighter , and Yatsuhashi Daichi, a colossus of a man easily standing over a foot above most people.
"Is this your new boyfriend, Velvet?" Coco teased with a hand on her hip. Raven noticed that they were all sizing him up and smirked a little bit.
"W-Wha!?" Velvet exclaimed as a heavy blush erupted across her face, earning a good-hearted laugh from Coco and Fox, and a slight look of jealousy from Yatsuhashi. "N-No! He just beat up some guys who were picking on me!"
Yatsuhashi's brow furrowed a bit, but he still said nothing. Fox looked like he was about to say something but Coco beat him to the punch. "Who and why?" she almost demanded. The sudden change in her attitude almost made Raven chuckle, something that only Fox seemed to sense.
"I-I think they were Team CRDL." Velvet squeaked.
"Just a bunch of arrogant idiots." Raven said dismissively.
"So then, where are you two going?" Fox said after a slight pause.
"Velvet here is taking me to see Professor Ozpin while Professor Goodwitch deals with the other four." Raven answered as much like any other student as he could, earning a few strange looks from the team in front of him. "Anyways...it'd probably be wise not to keep him waiting." he said as he got into the elevator. "And Velvet," he said to get her attention, "next time they pick on you let me know, I think I'll do what Nora suggested." Then the doors closed and he made his way up..